[ovs-discuss] openvswich freebsd 10.1 release configuration error

[Joe Stringer]

Hmm. The package should provide vswitch.ovsschema somewhere, but I'm
not familiar with FreeBSD or how this particular package is
configured.

The other thought I had is that the "No such file or directory" could
be referring to /var/db/openvswitch rather than the
/usr/share/openvswitch/vswitch.ovsschema.

I've CC'd kevlo, who is listed as the maintainer for this port (if I'm
not mistaken). Perhaps he can point you in the right direction.

On 12 November 2015 at 13:05, Hassan Samii <hassan_samii21 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> The OVS deamons are not running because there is no initial configuration.
> When i launch the command
> ovsdb-tool create /var/db/openvswitch/conf.db
> /usr/local/share/openvswitch/vswitch.ovsschema
>
> even if i change the prefix as you said i still get the "No such file or
> directory" error.
> I also tryed "whereis vswitch.ovsschema" and it doesn't find anything.
> I think there's supposed to be a folder called openvswitch which should have
> the db settings and all but apparently it doesnt exist.
>
>
>
> Il Giovedì 12 Novembre 2015 19:43, Joe Stringer <joestringer at nicira.com> ha
> scritto:
>
>
> On 12 November 2015 at 01:45, Hassan Samii <hassan_samii21 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Hi everyone, Firstly i'd like to thank everyone for the amazing work that
>> your doing.
>>
>> To my problem.
>> I installed Open vSwitch on a FreeBSD 10.1 Release (which resides on a
>> virtual machine working on Virtualbox). I used the Freshports to install
>> openvswitch and the installation completed successfully.
>> Now the problem is that if i do ovs-vsctl --version i get the following
>> (which i suspect is good):
>>
>> root at FreeBSDPrimo:~ # ovs-vsctl --version
>> ovs-vsctl (Open vSwitch) 2.3.2
>> Compiled Nov  4 2015 16:39:41
>> DB Schema 7.6.2
>>
>> but if i use the command ovs-vsctl show i get the following (which is not
>> good):
>>
>> ovs-vsctl: unix:/var/run/openvswitch/db.sock: database connection failed
>> (No
>> such file or directory)
>
> Are the OVS daemons running at this point (ovs-vswitchd, ovsdb-server)?
>
>
>> So then i thought that the configuration do the db was not set so i tried
>> this and got the following error:
>>
>> root at FreeBSDPrimo:~ # rm -f /var/db/openvswitch/conf.db
>> root at FreeBSDPrimo:~ # ovsdb-tool create /var/db/openvswitch/conf.db
>> /usr/local/share/openvswitch/vswitch.ovsschema
>> ovsdb-tool: failed to read schema:
>> "/usr/local/share/openvswitch/vswitch.ovsschema" could not be read as JSON
>> (error opening "/usr/local/share/openvswitch/vswitch.ovsschema": No such
>> file or directory)
>
>
> I suspect that this port of OVS is configured with /usr as the prefix,
> not /usr/local. So the path to the latter would be something like
> /usr/share/openvswitch/vswitch.ovsschema.
>
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